If ploughing were a matter of gazing, anyone could thresh wheat.
Source: tatoeba (8896456)
Thresh
//θɹɛʃ//
Synonyms for "thresh" (69 found)
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Closest matches (14)
Strong matches (21)
Related words (34)
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More general
6 entriesSynonyms
3 entriesderived
7 entrieshas context
2 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
6 entriesTranslations
67 translations across 55 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- dors verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Arabic
1 entries- دَرَسَ verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Armenian
1 entries- կալսել verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Aromanian
1 entries- triyir verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Basque
1 entries- eultzitu verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Bulgarian
1 entries- вършея verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Catalan
1 entries- trillar verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 打穀 /打谷 verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- 脫粒 /脱粒 verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Czech
1 entries- mlátit verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Danish
1 entries- tærske verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Dutch
1 entries- dorsen verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Emilian
1 entries- bāter verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Esperanto
1 entries- draŝi verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Faroese
1 entries- treskja verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Finnish
1 entries- puida verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
French
2 entries- battre verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- fouler verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Galician
2 entries- mallar verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- trillar verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Georgian
1 entries- დაბეგვა verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
German
1 entries- dreschen verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Greek
1 entries- αλωνίζω verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Hebrew
1 entries- דש verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Hindi
1 entries- गाहना verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Hungarian
1 entries- csépel verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Icelandic
1 entries- þreskja verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Ido
1 entries- drashar verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Ingrian
1 entries- tappaa verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Italian
1 entries- trebbiare verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Japanese
1 entries- 脱穀する verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Korean
2 entries- 도리깨질하다 verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- 뒹굴다 verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Latgalian
1 entries- kuļt verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Latin
1 entries- trituro verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Latvian
1 entries- kult verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Luxembourgish
1 entries- dreschen verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Macedonian
1 entries- врши verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Maltese
1 entries- derra verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Megleno-Romanian
2 entries- trighir verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- trăir verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- treske verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- treske verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- treskje verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Old Norse
1 entries- þreskja verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Polish
1 entries- młócić verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Portuguese
3 entries- debulhar verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- espalhar verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- malhar verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Quechua
1 entries- t'ustuy verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Romanian
1 entries- treiera verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Russian
1 entries- молоти́ть verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- buail verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Slovak
1 entries- mlátiť verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Spanish
4 entries- apalear verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- azotar verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- desgranar verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- trillar verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Swedish
1 entries- tröska verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Turkish
2 entries- harman çevirmek verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
- harmanlamak verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Ukrainian
1 entries- молоти́ти verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Unami
1 entries- paitehike verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Vietnamese
1 entries- đập verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Volapük
1 entries- cepön verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Welsh
1 entries- dyrnu verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Yiddish
1 entries- דרעשן verb (to separate the grain from the straw or husks)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
A long time ago, people used to thresh by hand.
Source: tatoeba (12488897)
The jay fell all lopsidedly and threshing, as though it were having a fit. The ground killed it.
Source: wiktionary
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